| 单词 | foreign taker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasforeign taker foreign taker n. now historical an officer of the City of London appointed to supervise certain street markets and attend to their clearing up.The name of the office arose from the fact that the foreign taker's duties could include seizing the goods of foreigners, i.e. those who were not citizens of the city (see foreigner n. 1). The office was abolished in 1744. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > other municipal officials > [noun] > municipal officials with specific duties > in London common hunt1535 foreign taker1618 street man1668 yeoman of the channel1708 1618 A. Munday Stow's Suruay of London (new ed.) 961 The Forraigne-Taker, to waite likewise on generall dayes. 1672 Act for Settlement & Well Ordering Several Publick Markets (Court of Common Council, City of London) 4 That the several Officers aforementioned, shall from henceforth be wholly discharged from the Charge of Cleansing and Carrying away the Soil of the said Markets, [etc.]..; and Richard Robinson the present Foreign-taker, and Yeoman of Newgate-market, [shall receive] the sum of three pounds every week, during the term of his natural Life. 1708 E. Hatton New View London I. Introd. p. xxxiv/2 There are also [in the Lord Mayor's household]..2 Yeomen of the Chamber... 1 Foreign Taker. 1718 tr. E. Lutwyche Rep. Resol. Court 2 576 There is a Custom within the City of L. to elect..six Freemen of the Company of Bakers, to be Foreign Takers to supervise all Spiced Cakes and Bread brought to the common Markets by any Foreigner, and to seise and send that which is bad to the Prisons, &c. 1850 W. Brandon Inq. into Freedom City of London 33 The office of foreign taker then became useless, and was abolished in the year 1744. 1991 I. W. Archer Pursuit Stability (2002) 202 The protection racket operated by John Pate, foreign taker. < as lemmas |
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